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jlf1961 -> RE: I have a question for all you Non Yankies..... (9/19/2017 5:58:49 AM)
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ORIGINAL: CaptR
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ORIGINAL: jlf1961
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ORIGINAL: WhoreMods
I'm well aware that "Yankees" are those above the Mason-Dixon line who launched the war of northern aggression* but he's taliking about "Yankies" who Hill has defined as wankers who make the guy out of The Vapours look gifted with self control.
*(Or anybody who isn't a Texan by some definitions, but I've been told that Louisiana was there before Texas. Perhps I've been misinformed?
It aint just above the Mason Dixon line, it is anyone from outside the territorial boundaries of Texas.
Louisiana was settled by French, a lot of them who got tired of frost bite in the French colony of Quebec, so, since many are descended from Cajuns from WAY up north, they gots another 30 or forty generations to lose the yankee in em.
Methinks you are forgetting a very large segment of Texans who originated in Germany. I believe the common Texan/ Midwest term for them is "Bohunks." To truly place the "Yankee" boundary you'd have to go south a bit to the Rio Grande. The word originally referred to all denizens of the rebellious colonies before the great republic of Texas was a gleam in any "Americans" eye. So we are all essentially "by borders" defined as Yankees.
Actually, Texas was settled by Germans, French, and Spanish.
The Germans settled down around Fredricksburg, the French picked the area around LaSalle, and the Spanish just found spots and set up missions, which then had to have walls since the everyone who came here had the bad habit of pissing off the Comanche, Lipan Apache, Caddo, and every other Native American tribe that lived here.
Of course, in the case of the Comanche and Lipan Apache, to piss them off you just had to look at them funny from 90 miles away, and they ready to lift scalps.
After Mexico got its independence from Spain, the president of the newly independent country invited some folks from the United States to settle in Texas, figuring to court good favor with the other new country on the block (not realizing that Americans by nature are ornery, independent minded and dont take to being told what to do or when to do it) which led to the new arrivals getting a bunch of the already here folks riled up to declare independence from Mexico.
We all know how that went, Col. William B. Travis and his volunteers persuaded Davy Crocket and his bunch of Tennessee boys to join them in a fortified mission down around San Antonio (with no back door evidently) to wait on a very pissed off Santa Anna.
Now, the John Wayne version of the story showed Crocket being one of the last fighters and throwing a torch into the powder magazine, actually Crocket and a few others were captured and executed after the fall (a diary of one of Santa Anna's officers confirmed this.)
That same journal also provided evidence that many of Santa Anna's officers tried hard to get Santa Anna to release Crocket and the others in order to show that he could be merciful and also to offset the bad blood caused by the massacre of Texans at Goliad.
That didnt happen, and well when the Mexican army caught up with Sam Houston at San Jacinto, Sam's boys were just as compassionate as the good Mexican president and general.
The good Mexican General was one of very few survivors of the Mexican army, and he was found hiding in a tree in his underwear. Terms were dictated and he was sent packing across the rio Grande.
Now as for the modern Texan claim to being the only true non-Yankees, it comes down to one simple fact.
Everyone else in the US takes good food invented in Texas and fucks it up seven ways from Sunday. Case in point, Chili.
Invented in the great state of Texas, made with no fucking beans and you morons go and put beans in it (okay, invented by Spanish colonists, but the original name for chili translated to chilis (the peppers) with meat. Not fucking beans.
Damn yankees think that barbecue means any thing you can put on a grill, WRONG, it is beef, not pork, and then you folks go nuts with sauce that leaves out the most important part, PEPPERS.
And speaking on food, a good steak does not need sauce, but damn if you folks pour all kinds of shit on a steak.
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